“...The boat turned a bend and almost collided with a fish inspection boat, with that same inspector. Another boat crashed into the plank pier, blazing with red flames. From somewhere came a heart-rending: “Help!” Andrei turned his gaze to the inactive inspector, shuddered and turned away sharply. There was no desire to look at the face distorted with a grimace of pain. He turned the boat so that his back was to the inspector, but still looked back. Instead of a face, I again saw the mask of a zombie crawling out of a grave. The inspector began to slowly fall onto his side, his cap slipped off his head and fell overboard. Then a piece of flesh fell away from the head, revealing the white bone of the skull..."